Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/16 February

• 1961 - A Scout X-1 launches the Explorer 9 satellite.
• 1965 - A Saturn I launches on the A-103 mission to test a boilerplate Apollo spacecraft and deploy the Pegasus-1 satellite.
• 1971 - A Mu-4S launches the Tansei satellite.
• 1972 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-474 satellite.
• 1972 - A Titan 33B fails to launch the OPS 1844 satellite.
• 1974 - A Mu-3C launches the Tansei-2 satellite.
• 1976 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos-804 satellite.
• 1978 - An N-I rocket launches the Ume 2 satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1338 satellite.
• 1983 - A Vostok-2M launches the Kosmos-1441 satellite.
• 1984 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1537 satellite.
• 1995 - A Soyuz-U launches a Foton spacecraft.
• 1999 - An Atlas IIAS launches the JCSAT-6 satellite.
• 2011 - An Ariane 5 ES launches the Johannes Kepler ATV spacecraft to the ISS.